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ME. F. P. PASCOE ON THE CUBCITLIONID^. 



connected to the funicle that I was led to describe the latter as 



being six-jointed. 



Demenica compressa. D. anguste ovata, nigra, squamis viridulis 

 griseisque ubique tecta ; rostro in medio anguste carinulato, sulco 

 transverso fere obsoleto ; funiculo articulo secundo quam primo lon- 

 giore ; prothorace subcylindrico, squamis majoribus interjectis ; scu- 

 tello rotundato ; elytris valde compressis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 squamis magnis griseis sat dense instructis, aliis parvis aureo-viridibus 

 intermixtis. Long. 4-5 lin. (rost. inch). 

 Hab. West Africa. 



Betoch^ta. 

 (Otiorhynchinae.) 

 Episomo affinis, sed scapo longiore, valido ; funicnlo articulis ulti- 

 mis valde transversis, clava crassioribus ; episterna metathoracis 

 distincta ; et processu intercoxali late truncato. 

 In regard to the intercoxal process, Lacordaire is in error, I 

 think, in his description ; in all the species (about twenty) 

 that I have examined it is more or less pointed anteriorly. 

 The genus, which is like Syntaplioccras in habit, is composed 

 of three very distinct species : in the first two the eyes are 

 very prominent ; in all the scape is unusually stout, impinging 

 considerably on the prothorax, and, as well as the funicle, the 

 legs are furnished with numerous stiff elongate scales ; the tibia? 

 at the apex have two rows of stout black seta?. 



Bryochjsta sufflata. (PI. VI. fig. 7-) B. ovato-ampliata, nigra, 

 dense opalescenti-griseo-squamosa; capite inter oculoslongitudinaliter 

 sulcato ; rostro in medio fortiter excavato, squamis suberectis densis- 

 sime vestito ; antennis griseis, funiculo saturatiore ; prothorace 

 transverso, subcylindrico, rude vage punctato ; elytris subglobosis 5 

 striato-punctatis, striis nudis nitidis, inter puncta granuliformibus, 

 interstitiis convexis ; corpore infra viridi-lavato. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Old Calabar. 



BRYOCHiETA viridis. B. ovata, nigra, squamis concoloribus viridi- 

 busque dense vestita ; capite inter oculos sulco abbreviato ; rostro 

 in medio modice excavato, squamis concoloribus arete adpressis ; an- 

 tennis nigris ; prothorace longitudine baud latiore, subcylindrico, 

 remote punctato, margine basali viridi-squamoso ; elytris obovatis, 

 striato-punctatis, striis nudis nitidis, inter puncta granuliformibus, 

 marginibus interstitiorum squamis viridi-metallicis ornatis, postice 

 et ad latera totis viridi-squamosis ; corpore infra dense viridi-squa- 

 moso ; pedibus roseo-squamosis. Long. b\ lin. 



Hab. Old Calabar, 



